Sunday Reading
...a Hundred Years The Unbearable Wrongness of Koushal vs Naz Readings for the 7th Anniversary of the al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing ReclaimUC: "Cops off every campus, and out of every neighbourhood!"...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.1.12
...feminization of The New Aesthetic is a must-read if you're interested in visual culture even in the slightest. "The New Aesthetic is about being looked at by humans and by...
African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...images (photographs) and by the bodies that lived it (the poet’s body). The book also meditates on aging. And one section gestures toward how suffering might teach us to extend...
Where State Politics Meets Gender Politics: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Manhattan Project
...initially waged as a separate war. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, this war became part of the Second World War, and the US and Soviet Union came to...
Thunderous Graveyard Affirmations
A Letter on the Uprising in New York
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Be Aware: Nick Kristof’s Anti-Politics
...One son, a 12-year-old, refused. “If you kill me, kill me,” he told the soldiers, as his mother remembers it. “But I will not eat a part of my mother.”...
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...Japan, induced spawning in jellyfish by shifting water temperature. Spangenberg (1965), managed to maintain her jellyfish for over three years at the University of Arkansas medical laboratory by keeping them...
Sunday Reading
...Before the Quake ReclaimUC: "You may accuse us of losing faith in the university; it never had faith in us." The work of humanities Who's afraid of Occupy? The John...
Sunday Reading
...teargassing in Brazil: teachers' protests around the world Business is booming for US for-profit education companies in Brazil #CharlestonSyllabus Rhodesia and American paramilitary culture The present tense of (racial) slavery...
Sunday Reading
...Mystery Man Arrives (1948) Glubb Pasha Flies Home (1956) ReclaimUC: They want to raise tuition again "What are elite college sports except massive fund-raising exercises?" Organizing within our changing profession...
Letters of Recommendation: C. Wright Mills to Fidel Castro
...to get some young professors for him, to teach there and possibly to work with INRA. I have now found one such man and wish to recommend him as strongly...
Homeward Bound
...still had to feed and house myself. To be processed through the carceral system is to be simultaneously exposed to the full power of American institutions and the terrifying reality...
Hollywood's Drug War
...where their loved ones are buried. Boullosa and Wallace found similar heroism in Mexico. In 2014 a group of student teachers from Ayotzinapa commandeered a bus in a desperate attempt...
Hot or Not?
...foolish enough to believe that a ‘natural’ disaster is not politically inflected: Hurricane Sandy will kill many times more people in Haiti than everywhere else combined, despite barely touching the...
Sunday Reading
...or congenitally disabled subjects. ReclaimUC: Academic labour and the capitalist university Washington state legislature passes budget *cutting* tuition at public universities "I am, in very real ways, a primary source,...